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Cirsium

noun

plume thistles

• Syn: ↑genus Cirsium

• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑family Asteraceae, ↑aster family

• Member Meronyms: ↑plume thistle, ↑plumed thistle

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\\ˈsərs(h)ēəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kirsion, a thistle, probably from kirsos swollen vein; from the use of the thistle in antiquity in the treatment of swollen veins

: a widely distributed genus of prickly herbs (family Compositae) having the bristles of the pappus plumose — compare carduus; see bull thistle

Useful english dictionary. 2012.